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Erik Buckman is a film critic, award winning writer and accredited member of the Denver media. He has appeared in national publications and has been covering the movie scene for nearly a decade. Contact him here.

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Review: 'The Blind Side'

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Sports movies usually offer a shocking amount of heavy-handed melodrama designed to stir emotional responses from viewers. A lot of them, especially...
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Review: 'New Moon'

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Like an emo edition of Tiger Beat put to film, The Twilight Saga's New Moon is everything one would expect from the follow-up to the monstrously...
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Review: 'Paranormal Activity'

For all the hype surrounding Paramount’s little-movie-that-could, Paranormal Activity, expectations are set at a level that could never be...
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Review: ‘Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant’

The recent rise in melodramatic teen vampire fare has been interesting to witness. From the golden-hearted sparkling heartthrob in Twilight to the...
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Review: Some laughs are better than none at all in 'Couples Retreat'

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It's easy to pick on romantic comedies. They usually follow a fairly easy paint-by-numbers principle that involves personal worlds falling apart...
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Review: 'Whip It'

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Coming-of-age stories always retain a certain formula that usually consists of a teen full of angst breaking free from the shackles of expectations....
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Bruce Willis delivers in 'Surrogates': Everything Else? Not so much

It's been a great year for science fiction. From the fantastic reboot of Star Trek to the thoughtful District 9, can Surrogates rise from the...
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'Fame' falls on its face

The latest take on Fame, an edgy ’80s construction built on perseverance through real-life hardships, has become filled with pleasant platitudes...
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'Jennifer's Body' is a dark disaster

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Like being trapped inside a ’90s teenage drama with ’80s horror sensibilities, Jennifer’s Body is easily one of the most annoying...
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Three cheers for corporate mischief in 'The Informant!'

Except for fat-cat execs, who doesn’t love a whistleblower? Okay, besides half of the editorial staff at Fox News, who doesn’t enjoy a...
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